The Ultimate Windows AI Setup for Builders & Creators (2026)

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Original video: The Ultimate Windows AI Setup for Builders & Creators (2026) · Channel: Riley Brown · 20:05 · Watch on YouTube

Topics: AI agents, Task and workflow automation, AI developer tools, AI infrastructure and hardware

Summary

Riley Brown presents eight tools for turning a Windows computer into an AI-focused workstation for business, productivity, and creative work. He demonstrates Raycast for launching apps and managing clipboard history; ChatGPT desktop and Codex for connecting to services and controlling the computer; and voice-to-text tools, a ChatGPT Chrome extension, and Grokbot agents. He also shows Claude for Excel and Notion workflows, then explains how to control the ChatGPT desktop app remotely from a phone. The video includes a sponsored segment about the ASUS ExpertBook Ultra.

Key points

Raycast can launch apps with shortcuts and manage copied text, images, files, and links through clipboard history.
The ChatGPT desktop app provides access to Codex, which the presenter demonstrates using to connect to Notion and control the computer.
Whisper Flow offers voice-to-text with a free plan and a paid Pro plan; Handy is presented as a free, open-source alternative.
The ChatGPT Chrome extension opens a side panel that can use the context of the page being viewed.
Grokbot lets the presenter create a team of agents connected to business tools such as Slack.
The Claude extension for Excel can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and charts from a prompt.
Notion is presented as a useful workspace for AI-assisted document creation and formatting.
The ChatGPT mobile app can remotely connect to the desktop app, allowing the user to send tasks from a phone.
The sponsored ASUS ExpertBook Ultra segment describes its performance, portability, display, security features, durability, and warranty.

Chapters

Start	Chapter	Summary
00:00	Windows AI setup and Raycast	The presenter introduces the goal of building an AI-ready Windows workflow and demonstrates Raycast for switching between apps, assigning shortcuts, and accessing clipboard history.
03:44	ChatGPT desktop, Codex, and the laptop	He shows ChatGPT desktop and Codex connecting to tools and controlling the computer, followed by a sponsored overview of the ASUS ExpertBook Ultra.
08:12	Voice-to-text and ChatGPT in Chrome	The video compares Whisper Flow with the free Handy alternative, then demonstrates using the ChatGPT Chrome extension with page context.
11:30	Grokbot agents and Claude for Excel	The presenter shows Grokbot answering questions using connected business tools and Claude creating a spreadsheet in Excel.
15:19	Notion and AI-assisted documents	He demonstrates ChatGPT creating and reformatting Notion pages, including using the workspace’s tabs feature.
17:58	Control the desktop from a phone	The presenter connects a phone to the ChatGPT desktop app and uses the remote feature to request computer actions before wrapping up.

Quotes

Today we’re talking about turning your Windows computer into an AI super machine. — 00:00

It is the fastest way to maneuver between all of my different applications. — 01:04

And this one is actually free and it runs a very, very, very cheap model. — 09:52

AI is better at using notion than it is at using Google Docs. — 16:20

Now I can see that it added these paragraphs down below and it can fully control my computer — 19:30

Concepts and entities

Raycast, ChatGPT, Codex, GPT-6 Astra, ASUS ExpertBook Ultra, ASUS, WhisperFlow, Handy, Google Chrome, Grockbot, Claude, Opus 5, Microsoft Excel, Notion, MCP, Intel Core Ultra X7 Series 3

Full transcript (original language)

00:00 Today we’re talking about turning your Windows computer into an AI super machine. And we’ll be discussing every single tool you need to use AI effectively on Windows. For the past 18 months, we’ve been using Windows to run most of our content operation, which has gotten me to over 2 million followers across social media platforms. And a month ago, I got another Windows laptop. And there are eight tools that I downloaded immediately to be more productive in my business. one of which is the Chat GBT desktop app so I could

00:30 get access to codeex. I’m going to show you the best setup for using Codex and Chat GBT on this desktop. But there’s actually way more tools than this. I’ll also be showing you the tools that will help you move faster, build any app, run your business, create a team of agents, and create better presentations and spreadsheets. Okay, so the first tool that I would download to my Windows computer is Raycast. As you can see here, I’m just going to press alt space and this is going to open up raycast. And from here, I can open up all of my

01:04 other tools. I can very easily just type chatgbt and I can open this up. I could hit alt space and type grobbot and I could open up this app. It is the fastest way to maneuver between all of my different applications. And so, the first way that I use raycast is just it is the best app switcher. alt space. I could type Chrome and I could very easily open Chrome. But you can actually make it easier to open up various apps on raycast. For example, I can just

01:34 press alt alt so alt twice and this will automatically open up chat GBT. And I actually configured this through the raycast app. So what you can do is you can just press alt space to open up raycast and you can type shortcuts. Press enter. And here you can record a hotkey to open up any app on your computer. And you can see here chatgbt. I did alt alt. And this is how I can open up chatgbt. So let’s say we wanted to create a hotkey for my

02:07 claude app. I could very easily click record hotkey and I could press windows computer C. And now this will open up claude. I could press Windows button C and this will automatically open up Claude. Here is the Claude app open on my computer. But this is not all I use Raycast for. I also use it as a clipboard manager. For example, I can press Altm and Raycast comes with a built-in clipboard manager and I can see all of the text that I’ve ever saved to

02:40 my clipboard. And this is really useful when I use it with ChatgBT or any AI tool. I’m constantly copying things and I want to use it later. And so if I were to copy any text and if I were to press alt m I would see that text is automatically saved to this clipboard. And I can just press enter to paste it wherever my cursor is. And in order to make alt m be your clipboard manager, what you need to do is press alt space to open up raycast. And then you’re just going to type in clipboard history. And now you’re going to rightclick on this

03:12 and you are going to go to configure command and then open command settings. Here you can set the hotkey that automatically opens up the clipboard history. And here I can very easily press alt m and now this will automatically open up the clipboard history. And there you go. And by the way it’s really useful. I can very easily go to text only. I can see all the images that I’ve copied. I can very easily go to all the files that I’ve copied. links. Here are all the links that I’ve copied. It’s very easy to do

03:44 that. Okay. So, the second tool or application that I’m going to download directly on my Windows computer is none other than the chat GBT desktop app. And the main reason for this is my favorite feature within ChatGBT desktop, which could be its own app, is Codeex. And I actually just released a 2-hour video on Codeex. If you want to learn the 28 best use cases on codecs, but the reason I like this app so much is it can do anything on your computer. You can use GPT6 Astra, which is the best model in the world. You don’t really need to use

04:18 extra high that often, and you can create any app. You can create any type of presentation and it can fully control your computer. And the first thing that you need to do when you are using codeex is you need to go to the plugins tab and you need to connect all of your existing tools that you use. Right? Right? It’s very easy for me to just type notion and then click install and this will allow me to connect my codeex to notion. So this will give chat GPT desktop the ability to fully control notion. Here you can click try now and you can search

04:51 through all of your content. You can update pages. You can upload photos. Anything you can do in notion manually. Now chat GPT codeex has access to do the same. And another really cool thing if you go at computer you can very easily use computer use please make a chart inside paint and make it about the rise of revenue in AI startups and so I can run this. This is how you get codecs to

05:25 fully control your computer and use computer use. And what’s awesome about this is very soon I’m going to show you how you can connect your phone to control your laptop as long as you have the chat JBT desktop app downloaded on your iPhone or Android. And then of course one of the first things that I did, I pressed alt space and I went to chatgpt and I rightclicked on this and then I went down to configure command and I said open command settings and then I turned this to alt alt. So now if I

05:58 double tap alt it opens up codecs and now we have raycast able to pull up the app that I use most which is the chat GBT desktop app. The laptop that I’m using in this video is the Asus Expert Book Ultra by ASUS, who I’m partnering with on this video. If you want to turn your Windows computer into an AI super machine, the computer itself matters. A high performance PC gives you the fast memory, bandwidth, and powerful computing cores you need to run complex AI models without lag or crashes. And hardware like the Asus Expert Book Ultra

06:33 decides how large a model you can run and how fast you get results. This laptop is powered by Intel Core Ultra X7 series 3, which gives me the performance to run codecs, edit videos, multitask, while the whole laptop still weighs only 2.1 lb. It also has a 70watth battery rated for up to 24 hours. So, for someone like me who’s using one computer for both creative work and running a business, it can actually be my main machine without being something I hate

07:05 carrying around. It also has a 3K tandem OLED matte touchscreen, which is great when I’m reviewing footage, thumbnails, and other visual work. There’s a haptic touchpad, and the cooling system can support up to 50 watts of TDP in turbo mode for more demanding workloads. And when you’re using one computer to run a business, security starts to matter a lot more. I’ve got company files, unreleased content, accounts, and basically my whole workflow on here. The Expert Book Ultra has ASUS Expert Guardian built-in, which is their

07:39 commercial-grade security suite protecting the hardware, firmware, and software. And that includes things like NIST SP8001 193 compliance and a dual BIOS ROM, adding security and recovery protections you don’t normally find on consumer laptops. And separately, it’s built to actually hold up when you’re moving around. It’s rated for 9H durability, so the finish is extremely scratchresistant, which is perfect if you’re constantly working in different places and carrying your laptop with you. You also get a three-year warranty

08:12 with battery and accidental damage coverage, and if it needs repair, there’s pickup and return service. Thanks to ASUS for sponsoring this video. If you’d like to know more about the ASUS Expert Book Ultra, click the link in the description. Okay, the third tool that I think you should download immediately onto a Windows computer is Whisper Flow. So, as I was saying earlier, I use AI tools all day long. In fact, I type into these prompt boxes more than I type into any other document and I’m constantly using AI. And for

08:44 this, as you can see here, I am a yapper. I don’t like to type things out. So, I use Whisper Flow. When you first download Whisper Flow, you’re actually going to be using the control keys and the Windows key to do voiceto text. So, check this out. Hello. I need you to do some research on Whisper Flow. I want you to figure out how much it costs and the website to download it. Please find that right now. Ignore any previous tasks we were working on. And I can enter it. And this is easily the best way to type on any computer. And this

09:18 works on both Mac and Windows. And I use it on all of my Windows computers. And so there is a free plan for Whisper Flow, and it includes 2,000 words per week. And then you can end up doing $15 per month on Pro. And I believe that’s the plan that I have. And there also is some alternatives for this as well. Hey, what about Handy? I heard about that one. That one’s free, right? So, there’s a free alternative that I heard is the best for Windows, which is handy.computer. And the default controls for Handy are a

09:52 little bit different. It’s actually control space. So, check this out. Control space. Hello there. Uh, hey, can you please tell me more about handy and how it works? And this one is actually free and it runs a very, very, very cheap model. And I actually think it’s running locally on my computer or at least you can select the one that runs locally on your computer. and it is free and open-source. And so this is a really good free option. I do think it just formats things slightly worse than Whisperflow in my opinion. Okay, so the

10:24 fourth tool that I’m downloading immediately on a Windows computer that allows me to use AI is Google Chrome, specifically with the ChatGpt Chrome extension. As you can see here, I have a chat GBT Chrome extension. And here I can see a side panel. And so I can hit exit or I can press this chat GBT icon. And here we can actually use the chat GPT app that I showed you earlier directly inside Chrome. In fact, all of these chats perfectly sync up. Remember,

10:57 this is the chat that we created 2 minutes ago. And that is exactly what we’re using here in the side. And so I could click on this news article right here and I could say, “Hey, I need you to tell me a little bit more about this, please.” And so I don’t even have to copy and paste anything. I just have ChatGBT directly inside Chrome. And chat GBT has full context over whatever you’re looking at inside Chrome. So it’s going to be able to provide really relevant context. And I could have said, “Hey, can you please completely recreate

11:30 this website?” And it [clears throat] would be able to do it because this is basically talking to Codeex. but instead I get a really high quality researched report directly here in the side view powered by the best model in the world which is GB6 Astra. So here we go. We see more information and so it’s incredibly useful to have chat GBT right here in the side window. Okay. So the sixth tool that I would download immediately after getting a Windows laptop so that I could use it for AI effectively is Grockbot. Grockbot has

12:03 become one of my favorite personal agent platforms. And so Grockbot lets you create a team of agents. I can say, “Hey, uh, what are the updates in Slack? Has Lucer finished the intro for the Windows computer video yet? Send link if he has.” And since Grockbot is plugged into all of my tools, just like chat GPT, it is able to check all of my different tools and give me up-to-date answers on everything that’s inside my business. And so here I can see that

12:37 this is the video link and here’s the link to the exact thread inside Slack. And so it’s really useful to have this team of agents that I can create in charge of different parts of my business that I can talk to. And so again, for this I use Raycast. And I actually haven’t set up the shortcut for this, but let’s do it for practice. So, alt space. I can find Grockbot. We can very easily rightclick on this. And we are going to find configure command. Open command settings. And we can record a hotkey. I’m going to do Windows sign Q.

13:12 All right. It’s used by another app. That’s good information. Let’s do Okay, we’re going to do Altg for Grockbot. So now I can very easily just do altG and this will bring up Grockbot. So now we have my team of agents that I can message really quickly at any point. I can bring it up by pressing altg. So the sixth tool that you should download immediately to your Windows laptop is the claude extension for Excel. So if you already have a claude subscription,

13:43 you can very easily just add cla to excel. And I’m telling you, the clawed models running inside the extension on a Windows computer is the best way to create spreadsheets. For whatever reason, on Windows, Excel just does so much better than if you use it on a Mac. And so, I highly recommend it. And so, we could very easily just go to Opus. And Opus 5 is really good. You can use Fable, but it is more expensive and slower. So, I do recommend Opus 5, but I could very easily say, “Hey, I want you to just make up fake data.” uh right now

14:16 for a business and just make like a really good spreadsheet that’s very visual, very professional and this would be like a I don’t know come up with some scenario and make it tell a story in a very interesting way and show the numbers, show a dashboard. So I can just fire this prompt in here and you can see here it’ll actually outline its steps. So creating sheet structure, building monthly data engine, etc., etc. Here we go. And what’s awesome about this is I can go up and grab a drink of water while Claude does all the work for me.

14:49 And take a look at this. I just came back and this is the presentation that it created. Look at how professional this is. It’s insane how good Claude is at Excel. You have to download this if you use Excel for your job. Obviously, this could be improved by making these like shorthanded dates, but like other than that, I mean, these charts are just so ridiculously good. And there you go. That’s how good this is at creating spreadsheets, and it’s still going. It’s

15:19 just going to keep checking it, making things better. That’s what AI models do now. And so, this is how you become a master at Excel. And if you ever want to close this, you can just hit the X, and here you go. Okay. So the seventh tool that you should download on your Windows computer is notion. Now I love using notion especially with the AI tools that we’ve already downloaded. So remember I can very easily just press alt alt. This brings up chat GPT. I can say hey please

15:49 make a new document in key docs about this inside at notion and I can at@mentntion notion and we can run this and if we go to our notion right that we have open right here and we navigate to our key docs which we are we will see that it will add a page to this in just a second. All right. So here you can see that Chad GBT just created this notion doc. And the reason I I’m saying that

16:20 notion should be used whether you use Windows or Mac is AI is really good at using notion. AI is better at using notion than it is at using Google Docs. It’s better at using Notion than ClickUp for example as well because Notion actually made their tools so that AI is really good at controlling it. They have the best MCP and tools set up so that you can very easily just plug it into codecs and ask it to create it. Right? I could go back to chat GBT. I could hit

16:51 control space. Hey, I want you to actually use the tabs feature. They have a built-in tabs feature to kind of tell me about this instead of it just being like a little essay. And then highlight the keywords in red and bold those keywords too. And I can run this prompt. And if we go back to notion. So now we’re just going to wait for chat GBT to make the changes. And look at that. It changed this whole thing to the tabs view, right? Notion has a lot of these different types of blocks and tabs is one of them. Right? You can do it by

17:24 pressing slashtabs. I actually use this the most out of anything inside notion. I love this format. I can go slashtabs and as you can see here, I can do it manually. I can change the name of the tab very easily, but AI can do it just as easily. All we had to do was ask. And look at this. It’s pretty fun way to create this little slide deck here at the top of our document. And AI is really good at controlling Notion. Okay, for the eighth and final app that you need to get on your desktop is actually on your phone. Whether you have an

17:58 Android or you have a Apple iPhone, you can actually control your Chat GPT desktop app with your phone. And if you go to settings in the Chat GPT desktop app, what you’re going to do is you’re going to click on your profile and hit settings. And now you’re just going to type remote. After you type remote, you can click on remote. And here you can say control this PC. Now I’m going to click add. Here we have the option to connect it to a phone or a computer.

18:28 We’re going to connect phone. And here I’m just going to scan this QR code on my phone. And so this is the remote running on my phone. And so I can just go to any chat that we’ve created previously. And you can see this create an AI star uh revenue chart. And it updated the notion document. Okay. This is amazing. Nice job. can you please actually open this up on my computer? And uh but before that, can you add a couple paragraphs at the bottom in

18:58 orange? And so I’m typing this into the chat GPT remote, which is a feature in the ChatGpt app. And I just typed it in. And as you can see here, I can control the ChatG desktop app from my phone. This is essential for codecs. so useful because now if I leave my computer on all the time which is easy to set up. You can use the Chat GBD desktop app directly from your phone and see now it’s going to add some summary paragraphs and then it should pull up

19:30 notion on the computer right because again codeex can fully control your computer and with the remote you can fully control the chatb desktop app and I can actually say hey I want you to pull up the actual notion app on my computer not in the browser and there you go now it is using computer use on codeex to bring it to the front and Now I can see that it added these paragraphs down below and it can fully control my computer bringing up the notion app on my computer which is awesome. And so with that, those are the

20:05 eight different tools that I would download immediately to my Windows computer. And if there’s any that I missed, and there probably is, please let me know in the comments what I missed and if I were to make a part two, what tools should I include? Thank you guys so much for watching. We’ll see you here in the next one.